We have one more into an already crowded market and I think everyone is trying to design what the consumer will use, and then again there’s privacy. A competitor was surprised recently when the sex activity for profiles and members showed up on a Google Search. The post below is interesting and also has a link to a story about a guy who hacked his Fitbit so he could have his data directly, without having to use a web based application so he would know where his data goes and who can see it, without it being put up for sale.

It will be interesting to see if the public takes up with the technology as many buy them and use them for a few weeks until the novelty wears off and then they put it away. Jawbone makes a lot of other great products but again will this product last or make it? This one is a bracelet and I’m guessing it comes in different colors is called the UP and you can read a tiny bit more from the preview website for now. BD

Fresh off its latest $70 million funding round, Jawbone is now turning its eyes to the growing opportunity in wearable health monitors with a wrist sensor product. Called UP, Jawbone’s first non-audio product, is a wristband equipped with an application that combines tracking and analysis of user movements, nutrition and sleep patterns.

Jawbone has made its name with stylish Bluetooth headsets and late last year started selling a portable speaker called the Jambox. UP will leverage Jawbone’s work in wireless technology and will also tap the company’s ability to make small wearable devices with long battery life. The price has not been announced but the device should be available later this year.

The move will also put the company into the growing market for portable health monitors. I recently wrote about Basis, a wrist monitor from Pulse Tracer that monitors not just movement but heart rates, temperature and skin response. Affectiva, an MIT spin-off, also recently released Q, a wrist sensor that monitors motion, temperature and electrodermal activity, which can measure stress, relaxation and arousal. The upcoming devices shows that companies are able to pack in a lot more sensors into small wearable units.

Dark Arts of Mathemical Deception

Professor Charlie Siefe of NYU, a mathematician debunks clinical trials, and few other items to where data is spun and fools you, every day example, hear about the perfect butt algorithm and more. These are probably some things you have never thought about but again after listening to what he has to say, it’s time to think about being skeptical. Here’s a radio show that also talks about the same topics.

This video digs in a bit further with how fictitious business models are used by banks and companies do this too. The models are so complex that CEOs don’t even understand them. “Quants, The Alchemists of Wall Street will take you through how “math models” work at banks and financial institutions in a way that even the layman can understand. More videos like over at theAlgo Duping/Killer Algorithm Page. Bank of America will also tell you“IT’ is a business” how they make money.

Weapons of Math Destruction

This is a lecture where Kathy O’Neill, a former Quant who worked for a Hedge Fund (Weapons of Math Destruction) on Wall Street will tell you what is done with your retirement money and more. The banks and companies use technology to take advantage because they can. “Of course we are going to take advantage because our tools are our brains…if they could figure out a way to take advantage of pension funds they would, a good interview with explaining smart money and dumb money.

Algorithms Shape The World

This is a very good presentation done a TED Conference and really was the one that got everyone started thinking about algorithms and today it’s talked about a lot. As he says “if you’re an algorithm, life is looking pretty good, but can’t say the same for humans”. What is a black box? Nobody has any control over the flash crash. We have moved forward a bit but still we are writing the unreadable and lost the sense of some of what is happening. Nice plug for Nanex here with research.